Stem cells in most organisms typically take cues from adjacent cells. But new research from the Stowers Institute for Medical ...

Schmidtea mediterranea, a freshwater flatworm (or planarian), has adult pluripotent stem cells spread all throughout its ...

They're tiny, blobby, butt-shaped, and glow in the dark. What the heck are they? Scientists are still figuring them out. A laboratory image of Chaetopterus pugaporcinus, aka the "pigbutt worm," an ...

Some things in cosmology may simply be unknowable. Why is there something rather than nothing? What lies outside the universe? What is inside a black hole? That last one has been niggling at ...

This 4-year-old boy had an un-fore-gettable moment at a golf course in Knoxville, Tennesee. Hayden Antal caught his son Levi's first-ever hole-in-one while playing The Barn at Beverly Short Course in ...

A 4-year-old boy had an un-fore-gettable moment at a Knoxville golf course. Hayden Antal caught his son Levi's first-ever hole-in-one while playing The Barn at Beverly Short Course in Knox County. The ...

Some golfers wait their entire lives for a hole-in-one. The seasons change, one after the next. Their hair turns gray, their backs stiffen. They go from walking to riding—from the back tees to the ...

It’s annoying to discover unsightly holes, mounds, or tunnels in your lawn or garden beds. But figuring out what’s excavating without your permission isn’t straightforward. “There’s some sleuthing ...

In a recent piece for my column The Universe, I wrote about the biggest black holes in the cosmos. These can tip the scales at many billions of times the sun’s mass, outweighing even entire galaxies.

WASHINGTON — Senate Republican leaders have made consequential moves this year to weaken or end-run minority power when it stands in the way of their ambitions during the second Donald Trump ...

One of the first black holes ever imaged is even stranger than we thought, new images of its dramatically changing environment reveal. The object, known as M87*, has experienced unexpected changes in ...